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Short and sweet: cwm

A while back, when I looked at Slax, I found an oddball little window manager listed among the options in the Fluxbox right click menu: mwm. I’d never heard of mwm, but after searching for it, I found a completely different one — cwm.

The man pages are rather sparse, but those and the home page suggest it has ties to both evilwm and plan9, in a roundabout way. As you can see I hadn’t much of a chance to use it to its fullest potential, but I can see where this might also be attractive for an X-based console system. The screenshot on the home page is more convincing.

For my own part I am still a fan of Musca, if I have to push a machine to use Xorg at all. But if you’re looking for a new window manager that’s out of the ordinary, cwm might be an idea.

6 thoughts on “Short and sweet: cwm”

Well, i3 is more similar to wmii than musca, musca is a lot more easy to use for piecing off the screen for what you really want, with i3 I always have to remap all the keyes, and then I crave for the ease and minimalism that is in musca, but that is me, and my point of view though.

On another point, I have just started to have to use puppy linux because my japanese ISP was doing something with the servers so only puppy can connect for some reason, and I have started to like JWM a bit, as far as a stacking manager goes it isn’t bad, just that I miss my arch-setup a lot.